TIME IS PRESENT
Designing the Common
Casa do Design, Matosinhos
(Exhibition)
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The main exhibition, TIME IS PRESENT. Designing the Common, at Casa do Design, invites us to consider design practices as a constituent part of the creation of shared social ecosystems, where the Common is not a foundation but a production, an invention of a state of becoming, in which designers collectively reclaim the relational, collaborative, and qualitative dimensions of shared experience as an essential alternative to the exploitative logic of contemporary capitalism.
What happens when design shifts from solving future problems to gardening present possibilities through collective agency?
Bringing together over 60 projects, this manifesto exhibition showcases a variety of design initiatives and innovative formats, organised according to the most participatory common factor: our emotions.
The exhibition invites us to recognise that emerging cultural practices cultivate everyday capacities — such as attention, care, and collective imagination — while simultaneously inviting the public to experience different temporalities that recognise our constitutively relational nature, acting out of love rather than fear.
List of Participants: A+N studio (with Studio Tom), A—Z Collective (Anja Lutz with Laura Meseguer), Kevin Adorni, Nabi Agzamov (5th Studio), Francis Alÿs (with Julien Devaux and Félix Blume), Julieta Aranda and Anton Vidokle, Architensions ( Alessandro Orsini and Nick Roseboro), Olivier Arcioli - Pascal Glissmann - Andreas Henrich, Hoda Judah Armani, Asena Bacaksız, Andrea Branzi and Nicoletta Morozzi, Maria Carnall, Leonor Carvalho, Sergi Casero Nieto, Matilde Cassani, Davide Fabio Colaci, Jordi Colomer, Matali Crasset, CORRE, Benedetta Crippa, Daily tout le jours (Mouna Andraos and Melissa Mongiat), Didier Fiúza Faustino, Gabriel Fontana, forty five degrees, Giacomo Moor Studio, HGK Basel FKNW (Fabienne Alina Wyss, Katharina von Koss, Felix Jordi, Linda Schirmel), Femke Hoppenbrouwer, Incolto (Giuseppe Defilippis, Lorenzo Zappia, Stefano Zappia), Shiila Infriccioli, Ania Jeglorz, Martin Konzett & Anders Khan Bolin, Ugo La Pietra, Flora Lechner, Lexus Europe ED² (Ken Billes, Tyrone Pillay), A+N Studio, Rui Caldas, ESAD Matosinhos - Product Design Students (Paula Carolina Moreira, Justinas Mažeika, Bárbara Quelhas), Rui Peixoto Lira, Cristian Loddo, Pietro Lora, Francesco Lupia, Macedo Cannatà (Maria João Macedo and Fernandes Cannatà) with Patrícia Costa and Letícia Costelha, Makea (Alberto Flores and Mireia Juan), Marisa Morán Jahn (Studio REV-), Paulo Moreira and Tiago Antero (ATA Atelier), Nina Paim, Anna Puigjaner, raumlaborberlin (Francesco Apuzzo), Franco Raggi (with Alessandro Mendini, Davide Mosconi, Nazareno Noja), Sarah Ross, Social Label, Elena Tosi Brandi, Space Transcribers and Álvaro Domingues, Barbora Středová, Studio Noff (Daniel Garber & Amalia Magril), Francesca Tambussi (with Paul Layzell), Rebecca Tegtmeyer, William Tooze, Olivier Troff, Pavan Vadgama, Stef Veldhuis, Dominic Wilcox and Liam Saint-Pierre, Zhicheng Xu and Mengqi He (Hyperlocal), Eliza Hanna Zimmermann and Nicole Faiella Perdomo.
Core Programme
Happisodes
Promoted by the Porto Design Biennale, Happisodes are co-design projects between designers, communities, and municipalities that bring to life, in Porto and Matosinhos, the joy of collectively recognising that the present can be reimagined. They are living, inhabited processes where design gives shape to the common.
Publications
Book publishing is a fundamental part of the Porto Design Bienniale, conveying, through the editing and materiality of the books and catalogues, the concept and curation of the projects.
Constellations
The selected projects are independent and autonomous projects regarding curation, financing and production that engage with the theme of this edition.